Kate Charlton-Jonesread English literature at New Hall, Cambridge, before becoming a teacher in London. She returned to academia after having three children. Novelist and memoiristDeWitt Henryis a professor of writing, literature, and publishing at Emerson College. He is the author of"Safe Suicide"and the editor of"Sorrow s Company: Great Writers on Loss and Grief". He was a founding editor of the literary journal"Ploughshares".Monica Yates, a daughter of Richard Yates, lives near Flint, Michigan, with her husband and four children.